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Promoting Ag Sustainability
In High School Classrooms
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BROOKINGS, S.D. - Sustainable agriculture was
the focus of a training session, co-hosted by SDSU
Extension and University
of Nebraska-Lincoln for
South Dakota high school
vocational agriculture
educators January 5, 2018
on the campus of South
Dakota State University.
"We need to educate
today's youth about
sustainable agriculture,"
explained Anthony Bly,
SDSU Extension Soils Field
Specialist, who coordinated the event with David
Karki, SDSU Extension
Agronomy Field Specialist
and educators from the
University of Nebraska
Lincoln (UNL).
The training was part of
a pilot program designed
to test new curriculum.
Current teachers as well
as SDSU student pursuing
degrees in Agriculture Edu-
cation attended the training. The following school
districts were represented:
Chester, Bowdle, Yankton,
Bon Homme, Tri-Valley,
Howard, Mitchell and
Wolsey-Wessington.
During the four-hour
training, the participants
learned about soil aggregate stability and how to
incorporate agriculture
sustainability lessons into
curriculum.
The Ag Sustainability
curriculum promoted during the training, was developed by UNL and targeted
for high school teachers
in the northcentral states,
including South Dakota.
"This curriculum will
be provided to all teachers
who participated in this
training," explained Karki.
Lessons in Sustainable
Agriculture
The curriculum is
composed of six lessons
designed to gradually improve the understanding
of a sustainable production system.
"The syllabus was
designed to be equally
friendly to students who
have farm background and
those who don't," Bly said.
understand the concept
of being sustainable," Bly
said.
He added that special
attention was given to
environmental and natural
resource conservation.
Once the educators
have implemented the curriculum, they are asked to
provide feedback that will
The six lessons that were
be used in further developcovered during the training ment of the sustainability
session included:
curriculum.
1. What is a system?
"The hope is to make
2. City Farm Game
the final draft of this
3. Connections to the Field curriculum available to
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agriculture educators eve4. Sustainable Ag. Case rywhere," Karki said.
Studies
This training and cur5. Engineering- Center riculum was funded by the
Pivot Irrigation
Environmental Protection
6. Digging In- Exploring our Agency (EPA) as a part of
Soils
its Local Grants program.
"These lessons incorporate many in-class demonstrations, videos, and
on-line farming game that
could easily help students
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Legal: The Northwest Quarter (NW¼) of Section Twenty-six
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A beautiful, remodeled 1,510 sq. ft. home, barn, storage
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The homestead consists of approximately 6.5 acres
which surround the house and outbuildings. There are
approximately 141 acres of excellent farmland and the
balance is roads and shelter belts, with accessibility from
both the north and west via county gravel roads.
Interested parties shall prepare sealed bids containing
contact information. Bids shall be sent to: Scott R. Swier,
Swier Law Firm, Prof. LLC, P Box 256, Avon, South Dakota
.O.
57315. Bids must be postmarked or hand-delivered by 4:00
p.m. NO LATER THAN Friday, February 16, 2018. The four
highest bidders will then be invited to a private auction, to
be held Friday, February 23, 2018, at Swier Law Firm at which
time bids may be raised.
TERMS: CASH: All bidders must accompany their bid with a
check for ten percent (10%) of the bid amount made payable
to the Swier Law Firm, Prof. LLC Trust Account and said sum
will be applied to the total purchase price if bidder is the
successful purchaser. Bidder must specifically represent the
aforesaid payment shall apply to any and all subsequent bids
for the above-described property. The successful bidder shall
pay the balance of the purchase price on or before March 23,
2018, and will receive landlord’s possession on March 23,
2018, for the 2018 crop year. A warranty deed will convey
title to the new owner and an owner’s title insurance policy
will be provided, with such cost being split between Buyer and
Seller. 2017 real estate taxes will be paid by Seller. It is
the responsibility of Buyer to inspect the property and public
records prior to submitting bids. Property is sold subject to
land previously deeded for roads and highways and existing
easements, restrictions and reservations of record, if any, and
subject to current renter’s oral lease for the year 2018.
Lillian Cap, Owner
30734 426th Ave., Tabor, South Dakota
To view the home, please contact
Alice Rehurek - 605 661-4473
Owner reserves the right to reject any and all bids.
For additional information, please contact:
Scott R. Swier, Swier Law Firm, Prof. LLC – Attorney for Owner
P.O. Box 256, Avon, South Dakota 57315
Telephone 605 286-3218
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By Sen. John Thune
For folks who haven’t
been following my “Thune
Farm Bill” effort in the Senate, thanks to the help of
stakeholder groups and individual farmers and ranchers
throughout South Dakota,
we made significant progress
last year as we laid important groundwork for the 2018
farm bill. The current farm
bill expires this fall, and one
of my top priorities for 2018
is ensuring the next farm bill
is done right and on time.
Last March, I announced
that I’d be introducing
multiple individual farm bill
proposals that cover most
sections of the overall bill.
My goal was simple. I wanted
to put pen to paper early on
in the process – beginning
more than one year ahead of
the deadline – so we could
start having a discussion
about items that could be
included in the new bill. By
starting this conversation
early, we would be able to
get ahead of the game, and
I’m glad we did.
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introduced last year would
create the Soil Health and
Income Protection Program,
or SHIPP for short. It’s designed to be a new voluntary
income protection program
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8am – 6pm and Saturday: 9am-12pm. Wells Fargo was founded in
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new program, which offers
a short-term alternative to
the popular Conservation
Reserve Program (CRP) and
its long-term requirements,
is widely supported. Scott
VanderWal, the president
of the South Dakota Farm
Bureau, called it “commonsense” and said it had the
potential be a “helpful tool”
for South Dakota farmers.
Shortly after I rolled out
SHIPP, I introduced a set of
proposals that would greatly
improve how easement
programs are managed by
adding flexibility to CRP and
creating new options for
other easement programs.
My legislation would boost
the CRP acreage cap to 30
million acres, which represents a 25 percent increase,
and it would create a new
target acreage enrollment for
each state based on historical enrollment. South Dakota
is expected to lose nearly 60
percent of its existing CRP
acres during the years covered by the 2018 farm bill, so
it was clear to me that some
changes needed to be made.
From there, I introduced
numerous other proposals that would, among
other things, simplify the
Agriculture Risk CoverageCounty payment process for
multi-county farms, require a
mandatory crop acreage base
update, improve eligibility for
disaster-related diseases under the Livestock Indemnity
Program, accelerate the availability of Livestock Forage
Program assistance for counties in the D2 Drought Monitor category, increase the
effectiveness of the Healthy
Forest Restoration Act, and
improve the National Environmental Policy Act.
We closed out 2017 with
a proposal to expand the
sodsaver initiative, which I
first authored in the 2008 and
2014 farm bills, for nationwide implementation. In 2018,
we picked up right where we
left off. This month, I introduced a bill that would help
individual Native American
ranchers by providing them
with premium assistance for
grazing loss crop insurance
and disaster assistance
eligibility for horses that are
owned for personal use when
natural disasters strike.
Taken as a whole, these
bills represent some of the
most extensive farm bill
policy recommendations
that have been introduced
this Congress. Again, and I
can’t emphasize it enough,
we wouldn’t be here without
the hard work and dedication of the men and women
in South Dakota’s agriculture
industry who provided their
advice and suggestions along
the way. As we approach this
fall’s deadline, they’re needed
now more than ever.